At every difficult moment in their long history, the Persian people have fought to preserve what is theirs. The Trump ...

With winter transitioning into spring, Iranian families in Chicago and around the world on Friday will celebrate Nowruz, or the Persian new year. This year, the holiday comes at a time when many ...

From Herodotus’ Persians to Cyrus and Darius, Iran’s legacy survives war threats and empire logic. A history lesson on ...

Shi’a Islam is central to Iran’s national psyche. Martyrdom occupies a particularly important place within Shi’a culture, ...

United States-Iran tensions have surged to the highest point in decades after President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered direct strikes that he said “obliterated” key nuclear facilities across the ...

In the 1950s, Younes Dardashti, a Jewish man from Tehran’s Jewish ghetto, became one of Iran’s most celebrated singers. As the country underwent rapid secularization under the Shah, Jewish communities ...

Does Iran's ancient past hold the key to solving the climate crisis of the future? What lessons can we learn from qanat ...

With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s leaders responding by hitting targets across the Persian Gulf and restricting transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it is fair to suggest that the ...

Professor Tarek Masoud joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the history of Iran. Is Iran an Arab country? Why did the Iranian revolution happen? Is Iran the only middle eastern ...

The United States should make every effort to assure Iranians that it is not deliberately targeting their country’s national monuments. Tehran’s Golestan Palace has stood as a testament to Persian ...

The U.S. military carried out strikes on Iran's Kharg Island Tuesday morning, hitting military targets that it had already struck, a U.S. official told the Washington Examiner, adding that this was ...

Iran has a drinking water crisis. And the war with the U.S. is making matters worse for Iran—and the entire Gulf region. That’s in part because of threats not only to water infrastructure, including ...